Have the same bug on a 1366x768 screen. Evince version 3.16.1 On Sat, 06 Jun 2015 06:18:47 +0100 "Peter T. Breuer" <[email protected]> wrote: > Package: evince > Version: 3.14.1-2 > Severity: important > > Dear Maintainer, > > post-jessie evince has become unusable for me since it won't resize down > to occupy only half the screen (leaving the other half to an editor!). > Somebody amid general UI vandalism has stopped its screen width being > horizontally shrinkable down to below the width of the toolbar, taking > 2/3 of a display width, and which is full of large icons supplying no > functionality that keys don't supply plus large helpings of empty space. > > Fortunately, qpdfview seems to fill its shoes. Until I found that at > the last gasp while working through all the possible replacements, I was > grimly contemplating compiling the oldstable version of evince. All I > need is a viewer that takes half a screen on 1024x768 and refreshes > itself when the PDF is updated, and on which the text portion can be > adjusted so the margins are at the sides of the viewer and that > positioning is remembered from page to page. > > Not too much to ask, is it? Why do I have to change away from what was > a perfectly working evince pre-jessie? > > Rerelease "oldevince", please! > > *** Reporter, please consider answering these questions, where appropriate *** > > * What led up to the situation? > * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or > ineffective)? > * What was the outcome of this action? > * What outcome did you expect instead? > > *** End of the template - remove these template lines *** > > > -- System Information: > Debian Release: 8.1 > APT prefers stable-updates > APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'proposed-updates'), (500, 'stable') > Architecture: i386 (i686) > > Kernel: Linux 3.17.0-betty (PREEMPT) > Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968) (ignored: LC_ALL set to C) > Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash > Init: sysvinit (via /sbin/init) > > Versions of packages evince depends on: > ii evince-common 3.14.1-2 > ii gnome-icon-theme-symbolic 3.12.0-1 > ii libatk1.0-0 2.14.0-1 > ii libc6 2.19-18 > ii libcairo-gobject2 1.14.0-2.1 > ii libcairo2 1.14.0-2.1 > ii libevdocument3-4 3.14.1-2 > ii libevview3-3 3.14.1-2 > ii libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0 2.31.1-2+b1 > ii libglib2.0-0 2.42.1-1 > ii libgtk-3-0 3.14.5-1
